New Here - 1st Post: The mirror Sirius gave Harry in Book 5

[Tammy]

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errx2 wrote:
> 
> This may be a stupid question but. . . it has been bugging me since I 
> finished the book months ago.  At the end of the Book, Harry finds 
> the mirror Sirius gave him and tries to call Sirius.  Could he have 
> used the mirror all along to reach Sirius instead of the fire, etc.?  
> If not, why not?  If so, why didn't Sirius just remind him to use the 
> mirror?
> 
> If anyone is kind enough to answer, please be gentle with me.  I read 
> all the books one right after the other and have not reread any, 
> yet.  I guess I'm a late bloomer, and I'm glad of it too.  I would 
> have gone nuts waiting years for the next book.

Tammy replies:

JKR said that the mirror wouldn't have helped as much as people think
it would (or something to that effect, once again I'm too lazy to look
it up). What that means, I have no clue... I read a theory posted by
someone here (forget who, it's that darn swiss cheese memory of mine,
apologies to the theorist) that Kreacher stole the mirror and that's
why it wouldn't have helped any.

As for why Sirius didn't remind him the one time, perhaps it was
because Lupin was there as well, and Lupin didn't know that Sirius had
given Harry the mirror... I suppose that's been incorporated into
someone's ESE!Lupin or ESE!Sirius theory as well :P

-Tammy, who apologies for any lack of cohesion in her posts as she
spent all day baking cookies.